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camrat.bsky.social
With a strong drive to grasp how stuff, ie nature and people, work.
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Bannlys omedelbart Starlink från Sverige. Tillåter det så tillåter vi att bli utpressade yle.fi/a/7-10072607

Oh, the pain.

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

A few hours after Trump's victory was announced in November I thought to myself "in 4 years the country will be largely unrecognizable to people old enough to remember the 1990s." It's been less than 4 weeks and we're well on our way to that destination point that I thought would take 4 years.

Tapping the sign:

A short timelapse of the Io shadow transit on 3rd Feb, taken from my back garden with a Celestron Edge 8" scope and x2 Barlow. #astrophotography 🔭

No, we can’t geoengineer our way out of the climate crisis They say that reflecting sunlight away, such as through cloud seeding or aerosol injection, can combat global warming. But it doesn't solve the underlying problem; it hides it while it worsens. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #science #space

Using the word 'biodiversity' is now problematic in the US. In the midst of a human-caused mass extinction event.

Reupping for the morning crowd

Meanwhile in the cosmos

Om jag förstår saker och ting rätt så blir vi alltså av med både AR15 och Jomshof? Undrens tid är inte förbi…

Did LIGO just see its most important gravitational wave ever? On February 6, 2025, LIGO saw a gravitational wave event that must've involved a neutron star. IceCube saw a neutrino arriving from the place, simultaneously. What could that mean? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #science #physics

Auspicious timing: Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025. www.esa.int/About_Us/Div...

De fina Svänska pattrioterna som hänger Kent Ekeroth i kjolarna. Kommentarsfältet hos SD:s förment självständiga slaskvideokanal Riks ser ungefär likadant ut.

Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

A great walkthrough of where we stand regarding dino vs ptero fuzz. (Left out a great down pun here)

Now that's more like it! youtu.be/xvFGjW4pY9A?...

”Det som nu sker i USA innebär en fundamental förändring av hur den fria världen kommer att se sig själv under decennier framöver.” www.svd.se/a/kwxrvQ/vi-...

Men ändå?!?!? /yxbengt

Some US states would probably give such an offer some serious thought. Possibly without even googling ”bhangra”.

I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us. slate.com/technology/2...

Yes, I will happily self-promote. Sign up for my newsletter here! Mondays are free because I'm cool that way. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Inclusion. Or rather the sudden lack thereof.

It was us. The plan was always us.

Hello! I've reported on planetary defense for several years now, and even wrote a book on it: HOW TO KILL AN ASTEROID. I'm fielding a *lot* of questions about the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4, which stands a small chance of striking Earth in 2032. Here are your answers. (Please share/repost!)

CNEOS (Center for Near-Earth Object Studies) has published a good FAQ about asteroid 2024 YR4 cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news210...

The “free speech / anti-cancel culture” party now literally firing people for thoughtcrime

In July 16-22 1994 the fragments of the comet Shoemaker/Levy 9 plunged into the atmosphere of Jupiter. I contacted experts in the field and made a digital model of the event to help compose views. One of the works I painted appeared on the August 1994 cover of Astronomy magazine. Here is that cover:

On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Skrattar orimligt mycket. @wistikent.bsky.social finns här men verkar inte vara aktiv.

Every F’n day

This is Pleiades (M45) in Taurus. This image holds 12 hours and 57 minutes of total exposure time under Bortle 4 skies in the North Carolina mountains. Telescope: William Optics Redcat61 Camera: ASI2600MC Pro #astrophotography

I suppose it’s ok to be an idiot too, but when he uses his rather powerful platform to remind us of this fact, it becomes increasingly impossible to ignore. I mean that new Model Y seems pretty neat, but who really wants to be seen in one with that asshat spreading his dung?

When is Saturn not really, well, *Saturn-ish*? When, twice every 30 years, the planet presents its rings edge-on to us, and they seem to vanish! And we're nearly there now. www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-... 🔭🧪

Banksy drops another bomb.

People who call themselves Christians are angry and outraged that a Christian church leader asked the most powerful man on the planet to treat vulnerable people with decency and humanity.

One other tidbit about nazi Germany is that the nazis destroyed Germany's position as a leader in science. Many of the most important papers in science were written in German prior to the nazis; after the nazis, English became the language of choice.

Elon Musk biographer here. The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now. Publicly. Daily. The Post either knows this or should not be in business.